Category: Review
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‘Mondays in the Sun’ Feels Stuck in a Lull, But That’s Part of the Point
The movie was among Spain’s most decorated films of 2002.
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‘Fletch’ is a Breezy Detective Romp
‘Fletch’ goes by with the odd sense that there is almost nothing to really be worried about, because this preternaturally assured journalist is going to figure it all out.
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‘Get Back’ Casts The Beatles’ Final Days in a New Light
I’d watch the remaining 52 hours of footage if I could.
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‘The Power of the Dog’ is Another Triumph for Jane Campion
The film carries on the director’s long-standing inclination toward the literary.
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‘The 24-Hour Woman’ Can Be Scattered, But It Can Be Incisive, Too
‘The 24-Hour Woman’’s feelings of disarray reach their peak near its end, when we get a finale so extravagantly illogical that I thought for sure I’d only endure a few more minutes of it before an “it was all just a dream” reveal.
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‘The Bad and the Beautiful’ is an Essential Hollywood Melodrama
Vincente Minnelli doesn’t mince anything here.
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Dreams Deferred in ‘Riding in Cars with Boys’
Penny Marshall’s biopic about the writer Beverly Donofrio practically shakes with compassion.
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‘The Day of the Locust’ is Almost Too Bleak
John Schlesinger’s ‘The Day of the Locust’ says what movies about Hollywood love to say almost as much as they do that ‘making movies is magical’: that this city is much more a town defined by shattered success and cynical commodification than it is a beautiful place where dreams have an unusual ability to come true.
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Too High
On ‘The Stunt Man.’
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The Profound Grief of ‘Fearless’
‘Fearless’ is one of the finest of all movies about grief I’ve seen.
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Overnight Success
‘The Barefoot Contessa’ is among the most pessimistic dramas about film stardom ever made.
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Upheavals
On ‘House of Gucci’ and ‘Belfast.’
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